GØGGS AllMusic Review by Mark Deming
AllMusic
Ty Segall seems to form new bands roughly as often as most folks do their laundry, but the guy is good enough that the results are nearly always rewarding, and that’s certainly the case with GØGGS.
Ty Segall seems to form new bands roughly as often as most folks do their laundry, but the guy is good enough that the results are nearly always rewarding, and that’s certainly the case with GØGGS.
Featuring the wildly prolific Ty Segall, this album is full of corrosive punk energy, leavened with wild noise and heaviness.
Ex-Cult member Chris Shaw discusses his new & noisy venture with Charles Moothart & Ty Segall
GØGGS debut, self-titled record is heavier than almost anything Ty Segall has worked on before. We caught up with lead singer Chris Shaw to discuss the album.
Ty Segall AND Ex-Cult AND CFM all have their own albums out this year, but don’t let that make you think GØGGS is some tossed-off side project.
Me and him, we’re each sitting on a sofa in the artist lounge and bar area in the basement of the famed San Francisco venue, The Warfield, where he’ll be playing to a sold out crowd in a few hours, one night after playing a sold out show across town at The Independent.
All an unwary listener has to do is switch this on and then bear witness to a sound that devastates with ferocity.
On its debut album, Los Angeles three-piece sludge rock band GØGGS tears through 10 songs in a little more than 25 minutes, laying waste via lyrics about a Glendale junkyard, the assassination of a doctor, some sort of needle swap and the local proto-punk band Würm.
Ty Segall, Chris Shaw (Ex-Cult), and Charles Moothart all individually have records out this year, and it’s very likely that the GØGGS album will be the best thing any of them deliver.
The second single released, “Glendale Junkyard,” is a straight-ahead punk song that features molten riffs congealing into a mass to swallow everything even remotely near its path.
GØGGS — a.k.a. the super-trio of Ex-Cult vocalist Chris Shaw, lo-fi renaissance man Ty Segall, and Segall’s Fuzz bandmate Charles Moohart — have been planning a collaboration for three years.
Prolific singer/songwriter Ty Segall arrives on stage at The Ritz in the latest of his many incarnations, wearing a boiler suit and flanked by the Muggers – a sort of Californian underground scene super-group.
Indie rock icon Ty Segall may be gallivanting around the globe while dressed as a giant baby these days, but beneath his current art-rock facade lies the soul (and voice, and guitar ability) of a serious musician.
If you happen to live near Los Angles, Chicago, San Francisco, or Brooklyn, you have the fortune of thrashing around to GØGGS live in the upcoming weeks.
Earlier in May, Ty Segall’s new garage-punk project GØGGS (Segall, Ex-Cult’s Chris Shaw, and Fuzz member Charles Moothart) released an explosive single called “Glendale Junkyard,” along with the news of a debut self-titled LP coming a few months later.
The Ty Segall/Ex-Cults project GØGGS have shared another new song from their upcoming self-titled debut.
Late last month, Ty Segall released a nightmarish music video for “Candy Sam”, a highlight taken from his latest solo album Emotional Mugger. That’s not the only project the prolific rocker and multi-tasking master has been promoting, though.
Ty Segall recently added GØGGS to his long list of musical projects. Comprised of Segall, Ex-Cult’s Chris Shaw and Charles Moothart of Fuzz, GØGGS swims in the garage punk rock pond.
Ty Segall teams up with longtime buddies Chris Shaw of Ex-Cult and Charles Moothart of Fuzz, and they call their magical concoction GØGGS.
Ty Segal, Ex-Cult’s Chris Shaw and Charles Moothart of Fuzz today share new single “Needle Trade Off” ahead of the self-titled debut from their new band GØGGS, out July 1st on In The Red Records.
Ty Segall, Ex-Cult’s Chris Shaw and Charles Moothart of Fuzz have a new band called GØGGS which will be releasing their self-titled debut July 1.
Ty Segall, Ex-Cult’s Chris Shaw and Charles Moothart of Fuzz have shared another sampling of music from their new project GØGGS.
No one can quite agree on what a song of the summer actually is. Technically, the song of the summer is the most commercially successful track between the months of June and September.
You have to love when a band has nothing new to promote but plays a show for the fuck of it. And you have to love when that band brings along their friends’ bands who also kick ass.
After following up their proper U.S. debut at New York City’s CMJ music marathon in 2014 with a two-album effort the following year, Australian psych rockers King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard returned last month with Nonagon Infinity, a fuzzed-out explosion that serves as almost the exact opposite of last year’s all-acoustic Paper Mâché Dream Balloon.
Babies are beautiful innocent creatures filled with wonder, but apparently not in Ty Segall’s world.
Ty Segall’s new “Candy Sam” music video continues the rock weirdo’s recent string of baby mask-wearing appearances, because why not stick with a schtick when it’s obviously working?
Following a memorable performance on “Colbert” back in February, Ty Segall’s Emotional Mugger track “Candy Sam” now has its own video.
Throughout Mac DeMarco’s 90-minute set at the Greek Theatre in Los Angeles last night, the video screens blended performance footage of DeMarco and his three-piece band with images of Kelsey Grammer as the X-Men character Beast.
Know this now: Beyoncé’s got nothing on King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard.